21 Grand
416 25th St
510.444.7263
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Death Sentence: Panda!
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Saturday May 24, 2008 (9pm)
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$3
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The late-'70s musical moment known as "no wave" delivered a short, sharp shock to New York's downtown art/film/music nexus. Viewing punk as a stale proposition, bands like Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and filmmakers like Richard Kern assaulted the scene with an amateur anti-aesthetic, the reverberations of which can be heard in contemporary groups like the Flying Luttenbachers and the Mae Shi. Marc Masters' new history No Wave traces the gnarled family tree behind this potent cultural moment, and ponders its continued presence in underground music. Local new-no-wavers Death Sentence: Panda! bring things up to date with a live performance that's sure to conjure some Lower East Side spirit.
